Technology in 2008 — Three fearless predictions — 1. Surfing will slow — PEERING into Tech.view's crystal ball, the one thing we can predict with at least some certainty is that 2008 will be the year we stop taking access to the internet for granted.

Wikia Search Launches Private Beta; Public Launch On January 7 — Well, the waiting appears to be over, and the promised 2007 launch date was technically achieved. Wikipedia/Wikia Founder Jimmy Wales has publicly announced the private beta for Wikia Search - right now. And the public launch is set for January 7.

E-Greetings Gain Ground at Businesses This Season — Have you sent out your holiday cards this year? What about your e-cards? — If your second answer was yes, you are in good company. Once seen as the tacky, last-minute substitute for pen and paper, e-cards have become more acceptable …

Paris Is No Silicon Valley — Yet — The missing piece is finally falling into place: the development of a startup “working class” of smart techies and ambitious entrepreneurs — My trip to Paris last week did not go smoothly. For starters, I could never quite adjust to the time change.

When to Buy a Camera, MP3 Player, or Cell Phone — If it's Presidents Day, it must be time to get serious about buying a new digital camera. For this and other advice about buying mobile electronic devices, read on. — Recommend this story? — Cameras

Day 6: Gotta Digg! — Welcome Diggers!! Hope you enjoy watching this as much as I did making it :) — Don't forget to go to www.crashthesuperbowl.com to vote for me! (You have to login to MySpace to vote...urk...but it's worth it!) There's just one week left! Leave a comment if you vote so I know who to thank! :)

Macs are even more expensive than I thought — When I got back from Europe my black MacBook wouldn't boot, it just sat there with a disk icon and a flashing question mark. So I made an appointment at the Apple store in Emeryville to have it looked at. — When I got there, there was no wait, they were calling my name.

The year in technology — The iPhone was great, except for its restrictions. And guess who's dialing up a better mobile Web now? — You'll balk if I label 2007 “The Year of the iPhone." True, news of Apple's new device hit the world within two weeks of New Year's 2007 …

Best New Google Features that Don't Require Login — This post is for those who think Google is still a search engine and wonder why news sites constantly talk about new Google features while Google's homepage still looks the same. Here's a list of my favorite Google updates from this year …

SO WHAT'S ALL THIS NEW MARKETING STUFF, ANYWAY? — Some people call it “The New Marketing". Some people call it “Marketing 2.0". Whatever name you care to give it, I get asked about it a lot. Here are some random thoughts, in no particular order. — 1. “The New Marketing” …

The Afterlife Is Expensive for Digital Movies — TIME was, a movie studio could pack up a picture and all of its assorted bloopers, alternate takes and other odds and ends as soon as the production staff was done with them, and ship them off to the salt mine. Literally.

Fake Steve: Techmeme uber-troll — Due to a surfeit of Christmas parties, I missed much of the Fake Steve Jobs takedown frenzy, in which the writer — otherwise known as David Lyons of Forbes — claimed in a series of posts that Apple was trying to shut down his blog.